Humans Keep Mummifying in This Mountain Town, and No One Knows Why
There’s a common occurrence at the San Bernardo municipal cemetery, the burial site for a small Colombian town high up in the ...
The Titan Submersible’s Carbon Fiber Was Supposed to Make History. Tragically, It Did.
A new study from the University of Houston uses computer simulations to analyze buckling strength of thin-walled cylinders ...
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A U.S. Gunship Sank a Fishing Vessel in the Pacific. The Target Was No Ordinary Boat.
A U.S. Air Force gunship sank a simulated fishing boat during Exercise Balikatan 2024. The exercise took place in the ...
A Whole Bunch of F-22s Are Flocking to This Tiny Island on China's Doorstep
The 27th Fighter Squadron, normally based in Virginia, touched down in Okinawa, Japan in late April as part of a rotation of ...
Russia Is Flexing Its Nuclear Muscles With Unprecedented Drills. So, What Now?
Russia announced its Southern Military District would hold snap tactical nuclear weapons drills involving its ground, navy, and air forces that will help “iron out” how exactly it might conduct a ...
A Laser Zapped the Rocks on Mars and Revealed a Long-Lost Water World
Of course, the Mars of today isn’t so hospitable—it’s atmosphere is nearly non-existent, riverbeds are dried up, and any ...
Inside the CIA’s Quest to Steal a Soviet Sub Filled With Cold War Secrets
Known as one of the “greatest intelligence coups of the Cold War,” the project was highly ambitious—and shrouded in secrecy.